Song Jia is the Partner of Guantao Beijing office. He has served several large-scale financial enterprises and equity investment enterprises as the private legal counsel and joined many essential projects. He specializes in the areas of finance, trust, equity investment, corporate finance and disposition of Non-Performing Assets (NPA)，and has sufficient experiences in such areas.
Mr. Song provides very professional and high-calibre PRC legal services to international and domestic clients on investment and corporate finance. After 15 years of practice, he has earned a good reputation from clients and peers for his responsiveness, dedication, high efficiency and professionalism. In the area of equity investment, he advised Bank of Montreal to complete the strategic investment to COFCO Trust and make COFCO Trust one of the rare foreign invested trust companies in China. He was the legal adviser of Orient Bangxin Capital Co., Ltd., the subsidiary of China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd., and provide legal services on equity investment and disposition of Non-Performing Assets. In the area of finance and asset management, he provided legal services to many financial institutions such as China International Capital Corporation Limited and Post Savings Bank of China, and he also provided legal services to many trust companies such as COFCO Trust, Zhongrong International Trust, Minmetals International Trust, CITIC Trust. In the area of corporate finance, he provided legal services to many state-owned enterprises such as Peking University Founder Group Corp., Aluminium Corporation of China Limited, United Investment Group on their innovative corporate finance projects. He also provided legal services to the overseas branches of Bank of China such as Hong Kong branch, Macau branch, London branch and many state-owned enterprises such as Hainan Airlines Tourism Group Co., Ltd., China State Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Bank of China Group Investment Limited, Wuhan Dangdai Science&Technology Industries (Group) Co., Ltd. on their overseas bond issuance in the international capital markets.
Practice Areas
Mr. Song specializes in the areas of Design and Investment of Financial Asset Management; Equity Investment and M&A; Corporate Finance; Disposition of Non-Performing Assets (NPA).
Representative Transactions
Equity Investment M&A
• Acting as legal counsel to Bank of Montreal on its strategic investment in COFCO Trust
• Acting as legal counsel to China Energy Resources Corporate Group on its acquisition of the biggest petroleum company in Jiangsu province
• Acting as legal counsel to COFCO Capital Holdings Co., Ltd. on its equity investment in a commercial bank in Inner Mongolia province
• Acting as legal counsel to Orient Bangxin Capital Co., Ltd. on its equity investment in a water production company in Tibet province
• Acting as legal counsel to Orient Bangxin Capital Co., Ltd. on its equity investment in a medical instrument production company in Fujian province
• Acting as legal counsel to Orient Bangxin Capital Co., Ltd. on its equity investment in a chemical product company in Shandong province
• Acting as legal counsel to Orient Bangxin Capital Co., Ltd. on its equity investment in a dairy product company in Tibet province
• Acting as legal counsel to Orient Bangxin Capital Co., Ltd. on its equity investment in an electronic product company in Jiangsu province
• Acting as legal counsel to Orient Bangxin Capital Co., Ltd. on its equity investment in a gene biotechnology company in Jiangsu province
• Acting as legal counsel to Orient Bangxin Capital Co., Ltd. on its equity investment in an electronic product company in Anhui province
• Acting as legal counsel to Orient Bangxin Capital Co., Ltd. on its equity investment in an agricultural product company in Jiangxi province
Trust and Asset Management
• Acting as legal counsel to China International Capital Corporation Limited on its investment in a creditor's rights trust plan of Daye Trust
• Acting as legal counsel to China International Capital Corporation Limited on its investment in a loan trust plan of Jiangshu International Trust
• Acting as legal counsel to China International Capital Corporation Limited on its investment in an equity investment trust plan of China Industrial International Trust
• Acting as legal counsel to China International Capital Corporation Limited on its investment in a project rights trust plan of Guotong Trust
• Acting as legal counsel to China International Capital Corporation Limited on its investment in an asset rights trust plan of CITIC Trust
• Acting as legal counsel to China International Capital Corporation Limited on its investment in an equity rights trust plan of China Fortune International Trust
• Acting as legal counsel to China International Capital Corporation Limited on its investment in an asset-backed security trust plan of China Fortune International Trust
Bond and Asset-backed Security
• Acting as legal counsel to Beijing Haiguo Xintai Investment Center on its creditor’s rights financing plan issued in Beijing Financial Assets Exchange
• Acting as legal counsel to Peking University Founder Group Corp. on its creditor’s rights financing plan issued in Beijing Financial Assets Exchange
• Acting as legal counsel to United Investment Group on its creditor’s rights financing plan issued in Beijing Financial Assets Exchange
• Acting as legal counsel to Aluminium Corporation of China Limited on its asset-backed notes issued in National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors
• Acting as legal counsel to Bank of China Hong Kong branch on its USD500,000,000 Yulan bond issuance
• Acting as legal counsel to Bank of China Hong Kong branch on its RMB5,000,000,000 bond issuance
• Acting as legal counsel to Bank of China Macau branch on its MOP5,000,000,000 bond issuance
• Acting as legal counsel to Bank of China Hong Kong branch and Macau branch on its USD1,800,000,000 bond issuance
• Acting as legal counsel to Bank of China Macau branch on its RMB4,000,000,000 bond issuance
• Acting as legal counsel to Wuhan Dangdai Science&Technology Industries (Group) Co., Ltd. on its USD300,000,000 overseas bond issuance
• Acting as legal counsel to China State Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. on its USD400,000,000 overseas bond issuance
• Acting as legal counsel to Bank of China Group Investment Limited on its USD600,000,000 overseas bond issuance
Disposition of Non-Performing Assets
• Acting as legal counsel to China Orient Asset Management (International) Holding Limited on its acquisition of RMB9,000,000,000 Non-Performing Assets of a commercial bank
• Acting as legal counsel to China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of RMB1,100,000,000 Non-Performing Assets
• Acting as legal counsel to China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd. on its disposition of a real estate Non-Performing project
• Acting as legal counsel to China Galaxy Asset Management Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of RMB400,000,000 Non-Performing Assets of a commercial bank
Honor
• Awarded by Asian Legal Business Journal in 2019 as Top 15 Rising Lawyers in China
• Awarded by Asian Legal Business Journal in 2020 with Deal of Year in Capital Market in China
• Awarded by China Law & Practice Journal in 2019 with Deal of Year in Capital Market in China
• Awarded by Asian Legal Business Journal in 2017 with Deal of Year in Capital Market in Hong Kong
Bar Admissions
People's Republic of China, 2005
Professional Experience
• Guantao Law Firm, Partner (since 2021)
• JunZeJun Law Office, Partner (2014-2021)
• Bank of Montreal, Senior Legal Counsel (2011-2014)
• Hogan Lovells International Law Firm，Legal Counsel (2006-2011)
• Export-Import Bank of China, Legal Counsel (2002-2005)
Education
• University College London, Master in Law（2005-2006）
• China University of Political Science and Law, Bachelor in Law (1998-2002)
Language Skills
• English, excellent
• Chinese Mandarin, native
